“Law, Language, and the Archive”
Third Annual Brown Legal Studies Graduate Conference

Friday, April 27, 2018
Keynote Roundtable, 5:00-6:30 p.m.

Pavilion Room, Peter Green House

Discussants: Michael Vorenberg, Faiz Ahmed, Emma Amador, Holly Case, Nicholas Laluk, Emily Owens
(Reception to follow)

Saturday, April 28, 2018
Smith-Buonanno Hall

Panel 1, 9:00-10:30 a.m.
(Literary and Legal Negotiations of Power)

Discussant: Rebecca Nedostup, Brown University

“Jurisdictional Crisis in Kashmir-Literature: Tying up the Three L's--Law, Land, and Literature,” Rajgopal Saikumar, New York University

“The People's Pendleton: The Daily Talk of Law in Rural Iowa, 1920-1928,” Emily Prifogle, Princeton University

“Over and Against [the Law]: Migration, Secularism, and Women of Color Feminisms in The Satanic Verses and The Year of the Runaways,” Lubabah Chowdhury, Brown University

Coffee break, 10:30-11:00 a.m. 

Panel 2, 11:00-12:30 p.m.
(Gender, Power, and Performance)

Discussant: Julia Gettle, Brown University

“No Body There: Law, Reading, and the Instability of Interpretation,” Hannah Frydman, Rutgers University

“Indecent: God of Vengeance and the Obscenity Trial of 1923,” Nicole Siegel, Fordham University

“Avant La Loi Veil: Collisions between Literature and Reproductive Law in Twentieth-Century France,” Georgiana Saroka, Cornell University

 

Lunch, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

 

Panel 3, 1:30-3:00 p.m.
(Contemporary Rhetoric and the Law)

Discussant: Daniel Platt, Brown University

“Undocumented Dramatis Personae: Movement Narrative in a Legislative Setting,” Nabil Tueme, University of Connecticut

“An Untold History of Israel's Affirmative Action Law,” Ofra Bloch, Yale University

“Surviving Settler Colonialism: Rhetoric and Contemporary Indian Law,” Elizabeth Rule, Brown University

 

Coffee break, 3:00-3:30 p.m.

 

Panel 4, 3:30-5:00 p.m.
(Creating and Confronting the Archive)

Discussant: Sara Ludin, Berkeley University

“Articulating and Engaging with Notions of Legal Heritage in Early Thirteenth-Century London,” Katherine Har, University of Oxford

“An Epistemology of Cruelty: Witness Testimony in the Murder Trial of Richard Lamb, London, 1733,” Nicole Breault, University of Connecticut

“Redefining the legal archive in Post-2011 Egypt: Manshurat Qanuneya as a case study,” Nourhan Fahmy, American University in Cairo

Download PDF of Call For Papers Here

"Law and Democracy."

Please see here for full schedule.

1st annual legal history graduate student conference. Drawing an interdisciplinary set of graduate students from all over the world who study the legal past, the conference provided a space for students to explore questions of methodology across a diverse set of panels:

Law, Labor, and Commerce

The Status of the Human in Law

Legal Knowledge Networks

Law and Empire

plus, a faculty panel on "Legal Sources and the Law's Archive"

For the full 2016 schedule, please see here.